Branded v. Supermarket petrol / diesel

neilmcl

ahillsy wrote: »

I filled up with Super Unleaded for the very first time today ahead of a long run tomorrow, to try to see for myself whether there's a difference/how much of a difference in the Standard vs Super Unleaded stakes too.

You probably wont notice any difference straight away. Generally speaking if you own a car that'll benefit from it you need to run through a couple of tanks full first before you see any benefit.

ahillsy

neilmcl wrote: »

You probably wont notice any difference straight away. Generally speaking if you own a car that'll benefit from it you need to run through a couple of tanks full first before you see any benefit.

Yep, my next couple of tanks will be the same stuff to make sure all the 95RON is all out and give it a bit of a chance. The car will benefit from it, but to how much of a degree I'm eager to find out!

smitchy73

I dont think there is any benefit using the higher priced fuels like super-unleaded, or ultimate from BP, even their own advert I've heard on the radio says you 'could' gain an extra 28 miles per tank, now lets see and average tank at 45 litres would cost about £54 to fill, but at the higher price usually +5p per litre it'll be £56.25, so an extra £2.25 for 28 miles? I don't know if i'd want to pay that, on another thread about actual mpg v officially claimed mpg it is amazing with people describing driving habits made a huge difference.

ahillsy

smitchy73 wrote: »

I dont think there is any benefit using the higher priced fuels like super-unleaded, or ultimate from BP, even their own advert I've heard on the radio says you 'could' gain an extra 28 miles per tank, now lets see and average tank at 45 litres would cost about £54 to fill, but at the higher price usually +5p per litre it'll be £56.25, so an extra £2.25 for 28 miles? I don't know if i'd want to pay that, on another thread about actual mpg v officially claimed mpg it is amazing with people describing driving habits made a huge difference.

Yeah the MPG may or may not equal the cost out, let alone may it pay off from that point of view. I'm interested to find out what the actual difference is. But, it's not just about MPG as it also offers better performance and better for the engine (of course, if the car can make use of a higher RON)

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cardinalbiggles wrote: »

They dont lack the additive blends they have them as well, albeit they may be slightly different.

If you live in Scotland all your fuel comes from 1 refinery and its all the same oil when it goes in.

So what you're saying is that they lack the additive blends which go into the branded stations—which is exactly what I said.

The fuel may come from the same refinery but it certainly isn't the same fuel delivered to each station.

DCFC79

elektra-2007 wrote: »

I thought it was all the same, my tesco is filled by esso anyway.
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maybe im wrong but i think all teso petrol stations are supplied by esso feul and sainsburys stores are supplied by BP, i see fuel from sainsburys PS as good as fuel bought from shell or BP PS, dont see the point in paying the extra when my cars been running fine on supermarket stuff, why should i pay more for it anyway, if no1 else was using supermarket petrol then yes i would think about stop using it but there cant be anything wrong with it as people use it.

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People smoke cigarettes, there can't be anything wrong with it.

mikey72

Don't do it when you're filling up though.

LandyAndy

I have fuelled cars, both petrol and diesel, from all sorts of sources over the years and have never noticed a difference in performance or consumption (and I do review consumption continually) between supermarket and other outlets.

On the other hand I do know that on 1 April when my local filling station was charging 121.9 for unleaded and 123.9 for diesel the Waitrose filling station in Salisbury (9 miles away) was charging 114.9 and 116.9.

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DCFC79 wrote: »

maybe im wrong but i think all teso petrol stations are supplied by esso feul and sainsburys stores are supplied by BP, i see fuel from sainsburys PS as good as fuel bought from shell or BP PS, dont see the point in paying the extra when my cars been running fine on supermarket stuff, why should i pay more for it anyway, if no1 else was using supermarket petrol then yes i would think about stop using it but there cant be anything wrong with it as people use it.

See the links that I posted at post number 10.;)